The Scottish Disease
I don’t care for rugby, but I visited an egg-chasing friend at the weekend so was obliged to accompany him to his local boozer on Saturday to watch fifteen genetic freaks lumber around under the dreich Auckland skies playing against the Scottish team. After a stout performance where the underdog Scots won an early lead […]
Billy Williamson

UEFA To Scotland: Drop Dead
Back in the early 1990’s, the European Cup stopped being a football tournament and became the Champions League. The raison d’etre of the rebranded competition: creation of an ever-expanding trough of filthy lucre to feed the pigs running European football’s biggest clubs. To their credit, UEFA do a shamelessly good job of quantifying exactly how […]
Billy Williamson

Get It Right F***ing Up You, Ya Clown Ya
We’re in the middle of trophy season, so welcome to the inaugaural, and possibly only, GIRUY awards. There are three categories of award: GIRUY, for an irritant or idiot; GIRFUY, for a person harming our game; and GIRFUY, YCY, for someone putting our game in mortal danger (the C doesn’t stand for “Clown”).
Billy Williamson

Going Bananas
The Tartan Army are still the world’s fluffiest football fans, thanks to the Sun newspaper. The blowhard tabloid rag proudly declared itself the saviour of the Tartan Army after it produced a photograph showing the banana thrown on to the pitch after Brazil’s second goal came from an area populated by Brazil fans.
Billy Williamson

Best of 2010: Reflections on the World Cup
The Dear Scotland contributors are going to take a bit of “winter break” over the festive period so it seems like an appropriate time to look back at some of the most popular articles of the year. First off, Billy’s thoughts on the summer of football.
Billy Williamson

Whatever Happened to… The McLeish Report
Billy is away this week so we are republishing his brilliant analysis of Henry McLeish’s recent report into Scottish football. The report was in development for over a year and was supposed to “send shockwaves through the Scottish game“. But 5 months on, and aside from the SFA getting a Facebook page, has anything changed?
Billy Williamson

Interview with Joe Jordan
Man Utd, AC Milan, Leeds and Scotland legend Joe Jordan was in New York earlier this summer in his role as Assistant Manager at Spurs. Here, the man who played and scored in 3 World Cup tournaments, shares his thoughts about pre-season in the US, the World Cup and his expectations for the season ahead.
Pete Reid

Size Matters
I often tell people one of the benefits of being a Rangers fan is that you get two occasions every week to be happy: Rangers winning and Celtic losing. Celtic’s defeat to Sporting Braga in the first round of the Champions League qualifier gave Rangers fans even further satisfaction – not only did Celtic lose […]
Billy Williamson